On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:26:30 -0500, in xml you wrote:
>On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:31 pm, Amy Lewis wrote:
>> >I like the notion of a spectrum of possibilities. BEEP certainly
>> > seems capable of supporting very complex modes of communication.
>> > HTTP can be useful for request-response. I'd like something
>> > that's just 'send' (aka XMLChucker) to fill out the bottom.
>>
>> DIME? Currently an internet draft, but some impls exist.
>
>This occurred to me too... I didn't like DIME at first blush, but DIME
>on a socket (DOS) might be close to what Simon was talking about.
IIRC, There's bindings for DIME to TCP & UDP defined in the WS-Routing
spec. And to clarify one of Simon's earlier points, its valid to have
a DIME message that's only a single record long.
Cheers
Simon
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